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A Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle AwardA Finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book PrizeA New York Times Book Review Notable BookSelected for NPR's Morning Edition Book Club

When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in The 33, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consumed by hunger, and experience the awe of working in such a place-underground passages filled with danger and that often felt alive. A masterwork of narrative journalism and a stirring testament to the power of the human spirit, The 33 captures the profound ways in which the lives of the Chilean miners and everyone involved in the catastrophe were forever changed.

Author Biography

HÉCTOR TOBAR is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of The Barbarian Nurseries, Translation Nation,and The Tattooed Soldier.The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Cities in the Desert 3

Part I: BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN OF THUNDER AND SORROW1. A Company Man 192. The End of Everything 293. The Dinner Hour 434. "I'm Always Hungry" 555. Red Alert! 736. "We Have Sinned" 857. Blessed Among Women 1038. A Flickering Flame 1219. Cavern of Dreams 139